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Int J Med Microbiol. 2014 Aug 30. pii: S1438-4221(14)00115-5. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmm.2014.08.016. [Epub ahead of print]
Influenza, a One Health paradigm-Novel therapeutic strategies to fight a zoonotic pathogen with pandemic potential.
Ludwig S1, Zell R2, Schwemmle M3, Herold S4.
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Abstract
Influenza virus is a paradigm for a pathogen that frequently crosses the species barrier from animals to humans, causing severe disease in the human population. This ranges from frequent epidemics to occasional pandemic outbreaks with millions of death. All previous pandemics in humans were caused by animal viruses or virus reassortants carrying animal virus genes, underlining that the fight against influenza requires a One Health approach integrating human and veterinary medicine. Furthermore, the fundamental question of what enables a flu pathogen to jump from animals to humans can only be tackled in a transdisciplinary approach between virologists, immunologists and cell biologists. To address this need the German FluResearchNet was established as a first nationwide influenza research network that virtually integrates all national expertise in the field of influenza to unravel viral and host determinants of pathogenicity and species transmission and to explore novel avenues of antiviral intervention. Here we focus on the various novel anti-flu approaches that were developed as part of the FluResearchNet activities.
Copyright ? 2014 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
KEYWORDS:
Antiviral therapy; Immune modulation; Influenza virus; One Health; Polymerase complex; Signal transduction
PMID:
25220817
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25220817
Influenza, a One Health paradigm-Novel therapeutic strategies to fight a zoonotic pathogen with pandemic potential.
Ludwig S1, Zell R2, Schwemmle M3, Herold S4.
Author information
Abstract
Influenza virus is a paradigm for a pathogen that frequently crosses the species barrier from animals to humans, causing severe disease in the human population. This ranges from frequent epidemics to occasional pandemic outbreaks with millions of death. All previous pandemics in humans were caused by animal viruses or virus reassortants carrying animal virus genes, underlining that the fight against influenza requires a One Health approach integrating human and veterinary medicine. Furthermore, the fundamental question of what enables a flu pathogen to jump from animals to humans can only be tackled in a transdisciplinary approach between virologists, immunologists and cell biologists. To address this need the German FluResearchNet was established as a first nationwide influenza research network that virtually integrates all national expertise in the field of influenza to unravel viral and host determinants of pathogenicity and species transmission and to explore novel avenues of antiviral intervention. Here we focus on the various novel anti-flu approaches that were developed as part of the FluResearchNet activities.
Copyright ? 2014 Elsevier GmbH. All rights reserved.
KEYWORDS:
Antiviral therapy; Immune modulation; Influenza virus; One Health; Polymerase complex; Signal transduction
PMID:
25220817
[PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25220817